PhD in Law

Introduction

The PhD programme in Law is an official university degree that addresses training in legal and social research.

Its objective is to train in methodological and instrumental skills to develop research projects in legal and social sciences:

• a) To train jurists-researchers capable of undertaking, directing, participating in and coordinating research that proposes solutions to the different legal problems raised by the Galician, national and international reality. 
• b) To allow the specialisation of the doctoral student in their research training within the field of scientific legal knowledge. 
• c) To train new researchers and prepare legal research teams to manage and assume academic leadership in their professional or teaching practice, through the application of research methods and techniques in the legal sciences. 
• d) To promote the entrepreneurial and competitive spirit of graduates in the field of research and professional practice. 
• e) To improve the development of scientific and technical skills of doctoral students so that they can perform efficiently in the treatment of legal problems. 
• f) Methodologically promote the training of future university teaching staff, thus responding to the training and scientific needs of the University System. 
• g) To have an adequate space for the achievement and transmission of scientific advances in the legal field, the confrontation of ideas and the generation of knowledge from our legal-social reality to contribute to the development of the Galician Autonomous Community. 
• (h) To encourage the creation of international research networks. The scientific and research projection of the research groups participating in the programme constitutes the starting point of these networks that will serve, in turn, for the mobility of teaching staff and students, especially in projection to the Latin American university community.
• i) To approach legal research from an interdisciplinary perspective that allows for comprehensive training in the field of legal research.

This study is verified and published

This study renewed its accreditation on 01 March 2022.

 

Annual PhD tuition fees Approximate price applicable to all students (non Spanish and non EU included). Secretarial expenses, school insurance and training complements (if applicable) are not included.	200€
Offered place for academic course 2025/2026	15

Why study

The doctoral studies taught by the UDC Law School have not only made it possible to raise the legal knowledge of the most diverse legal professionals (magistrates, judges, lawyers, solicitors, business advisors, civil servants of the Public Administration, etc.) to the highest level, thus contributing to improving the exercise of their respective professions, but have also provided academic training, A large number of the people who are currently professors at the UDC Faculty of Law and other universities in Galicia, the rest of Spain and different European and Latin American countries.

In addition, it should be borne in mind that, after the implementation of the Doctor of Law programme by the UDC according to RD 1393/2007, the teaching of the Master's Degrees in European Union Studies (MUE) and in Business Legal Advice (MAXE) became the prelude to doctoral studies, contributing very intensely to completing the research training period of future doctors in Law.

Roadmap

Starting academic year	2013-2014
Last update/verification ACSUG date	31/07/2013
Authorization DOG publication date	20/12/2013
Official BOE publication date	11/03/2014
BOE syllabus publication date	11/03/2014